What is the cheapest way to publish a few copies of a magazine?

Question

Hi everyone! My friend and I are working on sort of an odd project. We're putting together a magazine, but we only want to publish a few (maybe 25 or 30 at most) copies of it, for friends, etc. and maybe build on it after that. Anyway, I am just wondering what the cheapest way to produce this many copies would be? We've basically got the magazine laid out on Quark, but need a relatively inexpensive way to publish. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Print the pages to PDF files and them take those to your local Reprographics shop (i.e. Kinkos or QuikPrint, etc).

If Quark doesn't have PDF capabilities, download and use this excellent free PDF generator: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreat...

Read about PDFCreator at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdfcreator

Answer 2

If you have a printer that will publish two-sided pages, then you only need Microsoft publisher to do the printing. So you can buy paper and cover stock and then do the printing and separating/sorting your self, then take it down to Kinkos and for 50 cents a mag, they will do the folding, stapling, and trimming for you.

Good luck!

Answer 3

Staples, or one of the other office supply super stores, also look at FedEX/ Kinkos.

For the small number you are looking to print that is the best option.

Publishers are not going to be interested in this (too long to explain why here)

A local printer would work, but not for that small amount, most want something like 500-1000 copies of somethng to print to make it worth it.